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Leon & Brett return for a new season of ‘Tune Me What?’, the podcast bringing you the very best of South African music. Join us for another series of great music from the southern tip of Africa, from all genres and all eras, for all tastes, with a generous dose of ‘kakpraat’ in the mix.

In this episode we feature:

The Medicine Dolls

Flash Republic

Hip Hop Pantsula

Daniel Haaksman & Spoek Mathambo

African Jazz Pioneers

The Sighs of Monsters

Nakhane

Mauritz Lotz

Petit Cheval

Steve Kekana

We really appreciate your feedback. We’re always open to suggestions and even requests! If you’re a South African musician living or touring internationally, do let us know about your concerts, album releases or tours – we’d love to give you a punt on the show.

Our email address is yesno@tunemewhat.com But most importantly, if you enjoy the show, tell your friends about Tune Me What?! You can find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TuneMeWhat

Leon and Brett get into the New Year Party mood with some new and classic South African tunes you can dance to.

This week we feature

Boo!

PJ Powers & HHP

Mango Groove

Lucky Dube

Via Afrika

eVoid

Anna Wolf

Bye Beneco

Sipho Hotstix Mabuse

Boerekwella

Soul Brothers

Jack Parow

We really appreciate your feedback. We’re always open to suggestions and even requests! If you’re a South African musician living or touring internationally, do let us know about your concerts, album releases or tours – we’d love to give you a punt on the show.

Our email address is yesno@tunemewhat.com But most importantly, if you enjoy the show, tell your friends about Tune Me What?! You can find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TuneMeWhat

Brett and Leon challenge each other to remember when they were part of the great unwashed, when they like countless Rhodes students in the 80s were like Neil from The Young Ones. When life revolved around Tassies, politics and music, but mainly music, or mainly Tassies, depending on who you ask. But as usual, in-between the kakpraat is some great South African music.

This episode features:

Eric Van Der Westen & Louis Mhlanga

Jack Parow

Andre Le Toit

Die Radio Kalaharii Orkes

The Leather Omnibus

Burt Kaempfert

Chris Letcher,

The Dirty Skirts

Cherry Faced Lurchers,

Fetish

We really appreciate your feedback. We’re always open to suggestions and even requests! If you’re a South African musician living or touring internationally, do let us know about your concerts, album releases or tours – we’d love to give you a punt on the show.

Our email address is yesno@tunemewhat.com But most importantly, if you enjoy the show, tell your friends about Tune Me What?! You can find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TuneMeWhat

In this special episode, Brett sits down to with Michael Cross – director of the new James Phillips documentary “The Fun’s Not Over” to talk about James Phillips, documentary making, the South African music scene of the 1980s and 1990s and a bit of life, the universe and everything. Between chewing the proverbial cud, they manage to play some great records from James’s discography, featuring his solo work and the many bands he was a part of. The interview is an near-essential companion to Michael’s film for anyone who can’t get enough of Mr Cross’s can insights into his subject matter.

This episode features:

James Phillips

The Cherry Faced Lurchers

Bernoldus Niemand & Die Swartgevaar

Corporal Punishment

Illegal Gathering

The Lurchers

Chris Letcher

Not The Midnight Mass

The film is available to rent online and buy on DVD. See for more details check out

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Leon and Brett are back from their break with 75 minutes of tjoons and kak-praat, bringing you some of the best of South African music and jabbering about life, the universe and everything from Spur burgers to annoying subtitles.

In this episode we feature

Lithium

Wild Youth

Bernoldus Niemand

Lone Hill Estate

Nakhane

Ringo

Tailor

Refentse

S Dyer & B Mokhiti

Harari

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Our email address is yesno@tunemewhat.com But most importantly, if you enjoy the show, tell your friends about Tune Me What?! You can find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TuneMeWhat

In this special extended episode, Leon and Brett dig deep into the archives to see what they can dredge up from one of the most neglected decades: the 1940s. For half the decade, the world was at war, and the Gallo record company only established itself at the end of the decade, but still music was everywhere – whether in service of emerging cultures or just to help people forget the troubles of the world in turmoil. Not much music survives because not much was recorded, we hope we’ve found enough to make an interesting and enjoyable 90-minute show!

We really appreciate your feedback. We’re always open to suggestions and even requests! If you’re a South African musician living or touring internationally, do let us know about your concerts, album releases or tours – we’d love to give you a punt on the show.

Our email address is yesno@tunemewhat.com But most importantly, if you enjoy the show, tell your friends about Tune Me What?! You can find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TuneMeWhat

They say that making good policy requires compromise – a bit of ‘kief and toke’ as they say. In this spirit, the South African Constitutional Court has not quite fully legalised dagga, but they have ruled that it should no longer be considered it a crime to grow for personal use or smoke marijuana at home and in private. The Court has given lawmakers a timetable to weed out the law to comply. Of course, Leon and Brett could not help passing the roach and putting together another high-brow episode of Tune Me What? to mark the occasion. So tune in, drop out, but don’t leave any burn marks on our furniture. #browns

In this episode we roll up:

Satanic Dagga Orgy

Bernoldus Nieman

Oom Hansie

TranSky

Jim Neversink

Tony Cox

Johannes Kerkorrel

BLK JKS

Nick Taylor

Van Der Want / Letcher

Farmer Brian & DJ Dope

We really appreciate your feedback. We’re always open to suggestions and even requests! If you’re a South African musician living or touring internationally, do let us know about your concerts, album releases or tours – we’d love to give you a punt on the show.

Our email address is yesno@tunemewhat.com But most importantly, if you enjoy the show, tell your friends about Tune Me What?! You can find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TuneMeWhat

With politicians, it’s hard to know if they’re dancing with you or dancing at you, but British Prime Minister Theresa May could not stop her feet moving to South African music during her state visit last week. However, not every British export to South Africa has two left feet. Today’s show celebrates those artists born in Blighty, but whose musical roots burrowed deep into the African soil. You might say – borrowing from that vintage TV show – they were born a potroast, but the African sun made them entirely biltong!

In today’s show, we feature:

Johnny Clegg & Savuka

Mango Groove

The Helecopters

Wild Youth

Amersham

Squeal

The Bats

Jeremy Taylor

Duncan Mackay

David Abbate

We really appreciate your feedback. We’re always open to suggestions and even requests! If you’re a South African musician living or touring internationally, do let us know about your concerts, album releases or tours – we’d love to give you a punt on the show.

Our email address is yesno@tunemewhat.com But most importantly, if you enjoy the show, tell your friends about Tune Me What?! You can find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TuneMeWhat

In this episode, Leon & Brett explore some of the interesting fusions of different music explored by South African musicians, so if you’re keen to discover some marabi-infused pop, or some mbaqanga-infused reggae, or – dare we say – some boeremusiek-infused kwela, with some jazz, heavy metal, and more thrown into the various mixes, then this is the show for you!

In this episode we feature:

Errol Dyers

Freshlyground

Tananas

Hoh Hoggidy Hog

Assagai

Jack Parow

Reeburth

Qadasi

Mango Groove

Boerekwela

Juluka

Cape Town Tango Ensemble

We really appreciate your feedback. We’re always open to suggestions and even requests! If you’re a South African musician living or touring internationally, do let us know about your concerts, album releases or tours – we’d love to give you a punt on the show.

Our email address is yesno@tunemewhat.com But most importantly, if you enjoy the show, tell your friends about Tune Me What?! You can find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TuneMeWhat

Like a lot of South Africans, we’re big fans of the music of Aretha Franklin who, when she was not singing, lent her voice to the civil rights movement both in her native United States but also in South Africa. She was a great supporter of Nelson Mandela. So – considering we’re a show that only really plays South African music – we came up with our own way of honouring Ms Franklin who died yesterday. Today’s show features a great many of the songs she had hits with or made famous as interpreted by a wide range of South African artists, from hard rockers to a cappella choirs. We hope you’ll join us in paying tribute to this music legend.

This episode features:

The Flames

Margaret Singana

The Soweto Gospel Chior

Dan Patlansky

Freedom’s Children

Underground Press

Township Soul Inc.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

If you’d like to hear the Aretha Franklin originals, we’ve compiled a YouTube playlist as a companion to this episode of Tune Me What?.

We really appreciate your feedback. We’re always open to suggestions and even requests! If you’re a South African musician living or touring internationally, do let us know about your concerts, album releases or tours – we’d love to give you a punt on the show.

Our email address is yesno@tunemewhat.com But most importantly, if you enjoy the show, tell your friends about Tune Me What?! You can find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TuneMeWhat